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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: gpwurzel on January 20, 2010, 09:03:00 AM
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This video shows the winner of 2009s " Ukraine's Got Talent", Kseniya Simonova, 24, drawing a series of pictures on an illuminated sand table showing how ordinary people were affected by the German invasion during World War II. Her talent, which admittedly is a strange one, is mesmeric to watch.
The images, projected onto a large screen, moved many in the audience to tears and she won the top prize of about $75,000.
She begins by creating a scene showing a couple sitting holding hands on a bench under a starry sky, but then warplanes appear and the happy scene is obliterated.
It is replaced by a woman's face crying, but then a baby arrives and the woman smiles again. Once again war returns and Miss Simonova throws the sand into chaos from which a young woman's face appears.
She quickly becomes an old widow, her face wrinkled and sad, before the image turns into a monument to an Unknown Soldier.
This outdoor scene becomes framed by a window as if the viewer is looking out on the monument from within a house.
In the final scene, a mother and child appear inside and a man standing outside, with his hands pressed against the glass, saying goodbye..
The Great Patriotic War, as it is called in Ukraine , resulted in one in four of the population being killed with eight to 11 million deaths out of a population of 42 million.
Kseniya Simonova says:
"I find it difficult enough to create art using paper and pencils or paintbrushes, but using sand and fingers is beyond me. The art, especially when the war is used as the subject matter, even brings some audience members to tears. And there's surely no bigger compliment."
Please take time out to see this amazing piece of art.
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=vOhf3OvRXKg#t=00 (http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=vOhf3OvRXKg#t=00)
Wurzel
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I've seen that before, absolutely amazing talent! :aok
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Wow!
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I wouldn't kick her out of bed either.
Wow!
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Wow indeed. She is truly talented. Worlds apart from 99.9% of the "look at me" performers that are touted as talent.
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That was a well rehearsed masterpiece right there. :O Thanks for sharing.
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That was amazing work...and she is very pretty as well...thanks for sharing that. :aok
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Move over Rolph Harris.
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Truly amazing. Thanks for sharing.
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Fantastic wish I could do anything close to what she did! And I consider myself artistic.... :O
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Wow, that was incredible. At times I thought she had assistance from some form of magnets due to the detail exerted by a simple stroke.
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Outstanding post there. She has a fantastic talent. Thanks.
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Thanks for sharing gwurzel, that was an amazing show of talent! Beautifully done art work. :)
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an outstanding use of 8 minutes of my time. Completely mesmerizing. She brought the sand to life.
As an aside...wasn't that Metallica that she was using for a soundtrack right near the end?
Excellent post. thank you.
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As an aside...wasn't that Metallica that she was using for a soundtrack right near the end?
Yes it was...
Thanks for posting the link - very cool :aok
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WOW..........just...........W OW!!
What an incredably talented young lady. She could have done a thousand different things, but what she chose was perfect. Lest we forget.
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All I can say is...... Wow!
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As an aside...wasn't that Metallica that she was using for a soundtrack right near the end?
It was, as played by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalyptica (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalyptica)
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That is an amazing bit of work. Something else to see.
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That's incredible!
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Lest we forget.
All the Ukrainians who were starved by Stalin that fateful year, he took their seed crop and sold it to the highest bidder.